AMD's are still great! Get a board with a 790 series North Bridge and a SB750 South Bridge and you are good to go.
The Phenom X3's are tremendous value these days! (Tri-Core) The total cost of building a system will be cheaper than an Intel solution. Zulfiqar Naushad Senior IT Consultant ____________________________________________ SIEMENS Ltd Energy Sector Oil, Gas & IT Solutions P.O. Box 719, Al-Khobar, 31952 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Phone: +966 (3) 865-9730 (*NEW) Mobile: +966 (050) 587-0964 Fax: +966 (3) 887 0165 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:25 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Upgrade Time Thanks guys for a couple of configurations to look at. My previous upgrade to a different computer I went with a 6850 over the Q6600, mainly because not much runs on Quad. With normal gaming (UT3) what would I expect from Quad? Anything? Also, are Nvidia chipsets that bad now? I know the processor/board of choice these days is Intel, does anything AMD offer worth anything? Thanks...Steve On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgraded a couple months ago to a Q6600 and an Abit IX38 Quad GT mobo and > I'm very happy. I had the whole struggle between quad and dual core and > opted for the quad. The motheboard is one of the most stable ones I have > ever had. > > Unlike the two 780G mobos I've had in my HTPC, both of which have been > giving me nothing but problems. > > --------- > Brian > > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:34 AM, James Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> E8500 >> Asus P5Q mainboard >> 4GB of DDR2-800 >> >> That should just about cover it. >> >> >> On 5 Oct 2008, at 14:21, Steve Tomporowski wrote: >> >> I am looking to upgrade the processor/motherboard on my 'oldest' >>> system. It's a Neo 4 Platinum with an Athlon X2 3800+. I'm not >>> looking for the bleeding edge, but for something that'll give me a >>> substantial increase in speed for games. I've got an Nvidia 280 right >>> now, so that's set. >>> >>> What's hot now? >>> >>> Thanks....Steve >>> >> >> >
